Ingot mold



. B. H. HOWARD ET AL INGO'I' MOLD Filed Nov. 1, 1924' Patented Jan. l3,1925.

UNITED I srmrss PATENT BLOOHFIELD H. HOWARD. OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIA, AND EREIEST I.

K O TURNER, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

INGOT MOLD.

- Appl cation filed November 1, 1924. Serial No. 747,832.

7'0 (/11 whom. if may concern:

. lie it known that we, BLOUMFIELD II. llowann AN!) I lnxnsr J. TURNER,citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at

Washington, District of Columbia. and Pittsburgh, in. the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new andusefulI mprovements in' lngot Molds, of which the following is aspecilication.

Our invention relates to improvements in ingot molds.

The object of our invention is to provide an ingot mold for castingsteel ingots having its upper end constructed to receive a feeder,whereby the ingot cast in the mold will be free of holes and scams knownasviewof one side of the mold showinga slightly modified form from thatshown in Fi re 5. v

igure 8 isia vertical sectional view of one side of the mold showing ashghtly 5 modified formof the form'shown in Figure Figure 1 is aerspective view of our im- Referringnow to the drawingsl i'epresents themold which is of the usual conhll'lltllOIl, having the side wallsslightly in creasing in thickness towards the lower end; the upper endof the mold, around the hore, is provided with a flared ortion '2adapted to correspond with the ared out portion 3 of the feeder 4 Fromthe construction it will be seen that the feeder It tightly wedgedWithin the upper end of the mold.

In the modification shown in Figure 3, the flare at the upper end ofthe. mold 1 has the two. portions 5 and 6 extending at different angles.In this form a feeder having a corresponding outer wall would heemployed.

In the modification shown in Figure 4,

the upper edge of the mold is provided with the beveled recesses 7, 8, 9and lO and the four walls ada )ted to receive wedges whereby a tubularecder having perfectly plain outer walls can be used on the mold.

In the modification shown in Figure 5, the upper edge of the mold isconvex as indicated at 11, and the feeder would have its outer facecorrespondin 1y shaped.

In Figure 6, the upper er go of the mold is concave as indicated at 12and in this form the feeder would have a correspondingly shaped outerface.

-In Figure 7, the convex wall l? extends from the bore of the mold totheouter fin-v In Figure 8, the con vex cut away portion 15 extends fromthe bore of the mold to the outer wall 16.

Having thus fully described our inveution what we claim is:

1. An ingot mold having a hore therethrough flared outwardly.

5. iln' ingot mold comprisinga body pai (all Mid

tion lmvin a bore thelqethrough, iaifa hfiv in! a flared upper end, anda, feeder extending a flare 11 per end, and a feeder extendiilg into themold, and having itsouter wall ing into the ore of the mold and havingcorrespondingly shaped.

10 its outer wall resting upon the flared upper In testimony whereof weaflix our signa- 5 end of the mold; tures.

6. An ingot mold comprising a bodggor- BLOOMFIELD H. HOWARD. tion havinga bore therethrou'gh ax av- ERNEST J. TURNER. V

